The UK-Polish alliance will remain strong post Brexit. Our ties were forged in the most testing of times

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Theresa May lays a wreath at the Polish War Memorial in West London alongside then Polish Prime Minister, Beata Szydło.Credit:
Carl Court/PA

On 29th March 2019, the UK will leave the EU. It will leave a union that has been a common area of safety, prosperity and new opportunities, and from which Poland in particular has benefited.

After 44 years of communism, our country freed itself from its Soviet occupiers and underwent serious structural and economic changes, joining the EU in 2004 and becoming a success story of the European project. The Polish economy has seen 26 years of consecutive growth. This advancement could not have happened without the support of the EU and the UK. The UK was the first country to open its market to Polish workers as soon as we joined the union. At the same time, it became one of the first investors in...